AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

[walkman]

clarification: is Arbitrage when one has a mfa site with Google ads and the traffic is from google ads as well? Essentially the content sucks, traffic is bought from google and hopefully more is made by people clicking on that site's G ads?

[fredw]

Paris: I disagree. If everything stays the same, except for the fact that public trust in clicking a google ad will result in a quality page instead of a waste of their time, then it can only mean an increase in revenue for advertisers and publishers, because people will be clicking more, and more of those clicks will end up in conversions.

[JeremyL]

I have a question for people that got the email.

Are any of you running pure MFA sites and doing no arbi at all? In other words 100% organic, bookmark etc traffic with no PPC traffic coming to your site?

Trying to figure out if this is a pure arbi ban with organic MFA sites getting caught in the middle or if pure organic MFA sites are on the outs too.

[Khensu]

About time! Can I clean my filter yet of all this flotsam?

I get 2/3 of my traffic from Adwords and 1/3 from a dozen page one organic listings, so I think I am pretty safe (software download site).

[europeforvisitors]

clarification: is Arbitrage when one has a mfa site with Google ads and the traffic is from google ads as well?{

Or from Yahoo ads, MSN ads, etc. Arbitrage is profiting from the spread between what you pay for an inbound click and what you earn for an outbound click (regardless of where the clicks are coming from or going).

[Hobbs]

Paris,
The middleman just got cut out between me and my advertiser, I should be (and in the past 2 days have been) seeing better performance, more advertisers flock in or not, visitors trust ads more or not, the proof is in the pudding, let's wait and see if this improvement is sustained.

[sonny]

wonder why they wouldn't just ban the sites and not the whole account.

[europeforvisitors]

Anyone think this will add more money to regular publishers?

Maybe, but not necessarily right away. In fact, publishers who have been getting a lot of MFA ads may see a decline in earnings because of falling ad demand in the short run.

If there are less networks pulling a hundred grand a month's worth of advertiser money through arbitrage, does that mean there will be more money for regular publishers?

Possibly.

Will this help improve advertiser confidence in the content network?

It should help somewhat, but I think site-targeted contextual ads will help even more.

[malachite]

Can I clean my filter yet of all this flotsam?

I'd wait till June 1st. ;)

[DamonHD]

Still, I'm be leaving the ebay.* and various 'shopper' sites in my filter for the foreseeable future: "new and used dead popes" ads are *still* worse than the MFA nightmare I reckon...

Though I did hear (and not fully understand) something about eBay changing its affiliate model in a way that might discourage the dictionary-dumping from their end too. I hope so.

Oh, and staying in my filter will also be those fine upstanding individuals at WW and elsweher who announce in public that 'ethics is optional in business' while accepting G's pieces of AS silver!

Rgds

Damon